Australasian Cochrane Entities

The following Cochrane entities have their editorial base in the region:

Cochrane Review Groups

• Acute Respiratory Infections, Gold Coast
• Breast Cancer, Sydney
• Consumers and Communication, Melbourne
• Menstrual Disorders and Subfertility, Auckland
  
• Public Health, Melbourne
  
• Renal, Sydney

Satellites of Cochrane Review Groups* and Fields

• Airways, Hobart
• Effective Practice and Organisation of Care, Melbourne
• Musculoskeletal, Melbourne
• Neonatal, Sydney
• Pregnancy and Childbirth, Adelaide

Fields, Networks and Methods Groups

• Prehospital and Emergency Care, Melbourne
• Primary Health Care, Auckland
  
• Prognosis Methods Group, Sydney
• Prospective Meta-Analysis, Sydney
  
• Nursing Care Network, Adelaide
  

* Cochrane Review Groups are under increasing pressure to provide adequate support to more and more review authors. In Australia, several review groups, which have their editorial base in a different country, have set up satellites as a way of sharing the workload associated with producing reviews.


The Cochrane Collaboration has a special organisational structure to meet the needs of producing high quality healthcare information.

Cochrane Review Groups prepare and produce Cochrane systematic reviews in specific healthcare topic areas. Fields identify health issues of importance to specific populations and/or intervention types, and facilitate reviews across the relevant review groups. Methods Groups provide advice and support to the Collaboration in the development of the methods of systematic reviews. For more information on the role and function of these entities, please click here.